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Shrine fallout: China
cancels talks with Japan

TOKYO -- China canceled a visit by Japan's foreign minister just hours after he pledged to use the talks to try easing tensions over the Japanese prime minister's visit to a controversial war shrine.

"Given the present situation, the visit is not timely," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said yesterday of the scheduled weekend trip to Beijing by Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura. "We are not in a position...